Make exercise a healthy habit

“Mamma said there’d would be days like this” You know, the days that you want to stay in bed, the days where you just want to go home after work, the days where your hair is on fire and the inside of a gym is the last thing you want to experience. Some days exercising is a battle – a mental battle of you vs. you.

We all have these days. And its days like these where I say, just show up. I’m of the opinion (based on 41 year of experience half of which I hated exercise) that exercise needs to be a habit, a good habit like brushing your teeth.

Every time you exercise you’d don’t need to be puddle of sweat and have legs that feel like jello. Light intensity exercise is still beneficial.

Helps protect you from developing heart disease and stroke or its precursors, high blood pressure and undesirable blood lipid patterns

Helps protect you from developing certain cancers, including colon and breast cancer, and possibly lung and endometrial (uterine lining) cancer

Helps prevent type 2 diabetes (what was once called adult-onset diabetes) and metabolic syndrome (a constellation of risk factors that increases the chances of developing heart disease and diabetes; read more about simple steps to prevent diabetes)

Helps prevent the insidious loss of bone known as osteoporosis

Reduces the risk of falling and improves cognitive function among older adults